I would like to suggest some things for the Spider-Man franchise and introduction to the MCU.
Now, I have already mentioned how i feel that the best way to introduce the character and its supporting charcters is by slowly introducing them through the shows and other movies before making the Spider-Man movie the first film of phase 3. So here I will add some ideas that i hope to discuss:
- First, I get that many people do not want to include the origin story (I have only heard those that dislike it so I'm assuming that not everyone wants it) so perhaps what we can do is show through the shows some of Peter's life before he became Spider-Man. it would not be full episodes, or even arcs through the series, more like small cameos, perhaps of Peter and Uncle Ben leaving a Diner which they are regulars of, May Parker perhaps working as a volunteer inan organization, etc. Just small things, but not all together, and we don't focus on them exclusively, just make them see that they are there.
- Second, oddly enough I enjoyed the amalgamation that they made of Gangke Lee and Ned Leeds, so perhaps we can make him like that again, but we can also introduce Harry Osborn, just not like Peter's friend. We can make it here like in the comics, since this is a franchise that is going to last more than three movies (I assume) so like in the comics we make it so that they dislike each other at first, but they start thawing out little by little until they become friends just before the appearance of the Green Goblin.
- Third, aside form the amalgamation of the best friend character suggested above we should make sure to make the characters closer to their comic book appearances, because frankly, I did not buy for a second that Flash Thompson, Aunt May, or "MJ" were who they claimed to be at all. Aside from how they looked they acted way too out of character as to how they should. I can understand the need for adaptations, but this was more making characters out of scratch and putting the name of a famous person in.
- Fourth, we make it so that the Daily Bugle is a recently created Newspaper, in fact that could be part of Ben Urich's arc. If we made him loose his job at Frontline like in Canon and started his Blog, we can have part of the story be how he still investigates, still goes after the truth, still posts in his blog, and his determination and style of going after the truth and exposing it comes to the attention of J. Jonah. jameson, who is in the process of forming a newspaper, one that will go after the truth just like Urich is doing, and he wants him in. The final scene could be of Ben teling Karen bout his new job and giving him a card if she ever wishes to apply there.
- Fifth, Norman Osborn. Now this guy is tricky, since he is the head of a corporation, yet we don't hear about him. So, what we do is the following: He is the head of a corporation, a pharmaceutical/chemical corporation, the leading one in the country, whose headquarters was in L.A., yet since Stark stopped making weapons they have been in competition with Hammer Industries in taking over the military contracts in order to expand their portfolio, thus they are moving their headquarters to New York, explaining as to why we have not heard from them yet.
- Sixth, there was a mention of a Post-Credit scene showing the origin story of Spider-Man, now I wouldn't go that far (I already mentioned what we can do to establish Spider-Man before his movie) but the Post-Credit scene can work if done properly. Say, if it's done at the end of the final film of phase 2, it shows police cars around a house, and we see a teen entering it (we don't see his face) then when he enters we see Aunt May crying and police officers around the house, then the camera finally shows the face of whoever we chose to be Peter Parker as apolice officer approaches him and tells him the bad news, and then we finish the Post-Credit scene. I think this can work with what we want.
This is what i got so far, what do you guys think?
